help please

[sutton498]

hello can anyone help me. I am looking for my father in law family,unfortunately he doesn't have that much information.

All i knoe is as follows:

Norman Cecil Sutton born sept 1911 swindon. I have found this birth record. which is volume 5a page 78 swndon year 1911 3rd quarter.
his mothers maiden name is SMITH

Mothers name is eleanor ruby cooper I dont know what year she was born or anything else for vthat matter.

I know its very vagur but i was wondering if anyone can help me with birth marriage death or anything else for that matter


thank you in advance Dawn

[Tati]

Hi Dawn,

- Shame Norman just missed the 1911 census! I'm afraid it looks like you will need the birth certificate to discover his parents - unless your father in law can remember older siblings of Norman.

- Do you know when Eleanor Ruby died? I can't find a birth for her at all - the death index should show us her birth date or at least her age at death

- When was their first child born? (Don't post a name, just a birth year please)

Sorry - questions but no answers! 
 

[sutton498]

not much info i can add i1m afraid. he doesn't have much contact and cant remember names etc.

my father in law is a twin and they were born in 1945
2 older sisters they are a lot older than him but i cant give exact dates.

1 is about 10 years older and the other is approx 13- 15 years older.

his mum died when he was quite young so again approx 1955 - 1965

i have my father in law short birthday certificate and my in laws marriage certificate. dont know if i can get any info from them, i am a complete novice. trust me to pick the hardest ones to start with

[sutton498]

 i would like to change some of the info mothers maiden name was HOOPER not COOPER but if anyone can help it would be much appreciated. Tati i have pm'd u and thank you for your help so far.

Maybe with the right info i might get somewhere

DAwn

[Tati]

If it's any comfort, I don't think this looks any more difficult than other families so far (although it would be a great help to have more precise dates).

To start with, this is a matter of trawling through BMD indexes to find Norman and Eleanor's marriage. From there, you should be able to purchase the marriage cert which should shows their ages and father's names which in turn, hopefully, will allow us to identify their families in the 1911 census.

Must say I'm not having much luck so far. I've searched 1929 - 1934 for a marriage and couldn't find one for a Norman C Sutton at all  

[Tati]

Haha! At least we could be on a trail for Eleanor now

Birth Eleanor Ruby Hooper
Dec 1906 Swindon 5a 34

 

[Tati]

OK, found the marriage (I missed him first time round, grrr) - PMing you the details 

... although I've just realised that they are shown with slightly different page numbers and I'm not sure which one is correct 

[Tati]

If we suppose that the 1906 born Eleanor is correct (you'll need the marriage cert to confirm though, and to help us with Norman), then we can start tracing her back. Looks like her parents were Reuben born ca. 1867 and Annie born ca. 1862.

Do you have access to the censuses? 

 

[sutton498]

Thank you so much Tati
it would have taken me ages to find those details. Thank you for pm

as to the census i hve just purchased a subscription to ancestry so i can view up to 1901 (i think)
i am still new to this. I have been doing it for over a year but i haven't touched it foe quite sometime sas i got myself all confused. ha ha

So i'm starting afresh thius is the furthest i have got on my father in law side

So thank you once again
Dawn